This week, '90s alt-rock group Bush releases its seventh album; The Shins release their first album in five years; The Magnetic Fields release a 50-song collection in honor of leader Stephin Merritt’s 50th birthday; British folk singer Laura Marling delivers an entrancing new album; defining

Patricia Arquette was less than pleased with the In Memoriam tribute at Sunday's Oscars as it did not include her sister Alexis Arquette, a trans activist and actor with more than 70 screen credits. "I was really pissed off the academy left out my sister Alexis in the memoriam because Alexis had a

The "In Memoriam" segment highlighted some of the Hollywood luminaries lost since the last Oscars. At the start of the segment, Jennifer Aniston got choked up as she mentioned 61-year-old Bill Paxton , who died on the eve of the Oscars following complications from surgery. Paxton was not featured

Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He's the first musician ever to capture the prize, and the first American writer since 1993 to do so. But should a songwriter really be eligible to win the Nobel Prize for literature? Yes, says Dylan expert David Gaines, professor of English at